34 Duke MBA students punished for cheating

[Rock On]

on a take-home test.

Is it just me or does Duke have a big red X on its back?

DUKE - Fuqua (http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2007/05/01/duke_34_mba_students_punished_for_cheating/)

[QueenAdrock]

You know, my speech professor a few years ago gave us our midterm to take in the library because he had to leave for an emergency. Everyone cheated, everyone got great grades. I take pride in knowing I did the work myself, so I didn't cheat. I got an 85%. I told him that everyone else cheated, and he got upset and said that just because I didn't do as well as the others is no reason to assume they cheated and that he'd have to be a pretty big fool to not know when people cheat. RIIIIGHT. I ditched his class so fast, what a dick. (n)


What was pretty LOL was a girl who cheated but didn't want to make it seem like she did, so she wrote down some wrong answers too, so it'd be less suspicious. She got a D. LOLOLOLOL!

[Justin]

i always hated take home test! Everyone was always like..."yea take home test! Its gonng be easy!"

and every fucking time it would be a very time consuming test that would actually end up being harder than a regular test taken in class.

[Rock On]

We had a similar situation come up during my first year in grad school. Students generally keep all their old exams, so when exam time rolls around, 1st year students go around collecting last year's exams from 2nd year students to use as study aids. This practice is explicitly encouraged by faculty.

Well, our 65 year-old stat professor announces that the final exam is going to be a take-home exam. Okay, whatever. We knock on a few doors, get the last few years' finals, and spend a couple of afternoons working our way through the old exams together, just like we ordinarily would for any other exam. Exam day rolls around and our prof hands out the final; it is the exact same exam as he gave last year. The problems are exactly the same with exactly the same numbers throughout. There's even a minor typo (punctuation) that was exactly the same.

So of course all the different study cliques hand in answers that are practically identical, because we had already solved these problems together before he had even handed out the exam. The prof then accuses the entire first year class (approximately 30 people in three different programs) of cheating.

Fun times.

[g-mile7]

Di's a SNITCH *pulls out snitch food*
















































*Shots fired*

[TurdBerglar]

yeah

she's the dick for being a fucking snitch

[g-mile7]

;)

[QueenAdrock]

Totally. Fuck those guys. I don't work my ass off in school to get the same grades as dumbasses who cheat. :cool:

[Yeti]

I read that kids are now downloading and recording answers to their I-Pods. Whatever happened to the days of writing on your arm.

[Lo_Lyfe]

I've never seen someone allowed to listen to their Ipod during an exam.
We used to be able to slide the headphone wire up our shirt-sleeves. On walkmans.

[TurdBerglar]

I read that kids are now downloading and recording answers to their I-Pods. Whatever happened to the days of writing on your arm.


we've been storing formulas and answers in our graphing calculators since 8th grade.

[abcdefz]

How anyone can administer an unsupervised test and not expect cheating is beyond me.